Pat Summitt diagnosed with early onset dementia

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Sad news!!!!
Only here comes the saddest news of all, Pat Summitt, at just age 59, has been diagnosed with early onset dementia.
“There’s not going to be any pity party and I’ll make sure of that,” Summitt told the Knoxville News-Sentinel in a statement that is as pure Pat Summitt as you’ll ever find.

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Symptoms have lingered for at least a year, Pat has said. This is indeed sad and has consumed water-cooler talk all over Rocky Top today. This woman is the face of UT. Dementia does not discriminate and doesn't care if you're Pat Summitt or the second cousin to the neigbhbor of Pat Summitt's second cousin.

If Pat is in the early-mid stages, we had better enjoy her genius while we can. I lost my father as he was in the early-mid stages, and trust me, it can take you downhill fast. The sad thing is this disease can make sudden changes and then plateau for years. So you can drop off the table and stay there for years before there are other changes.

Pray for Pat and her son Tyler and all who will care for her and love her. That last group? Well, they're all of us on Rocky Top as well as all who love college basketball.

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I know of a couple of churches she has attended over the years. At one church's years ago, she would often bring the team. One year two or three were professed faith during a service and two of them went into missions work.

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